Photoshop CS5: Crashes in Mojave after clicking Type Tool

Updated to Mojave recently, everything in Photoshop CS5 still functions after the accessibility permission workaround. Except for the type tool, once that is clicked the application immediately crashes.

The issue is that the Adobe Install apps from CS5 won't work in Mojave (change on Adobe's server? I read). Installing a fresh download .dmg of Master Collection CS5 from Adobe has the same issue. This is also why the Adobe Application Manager automatic updating app isn't working, but will still conveniently tell you what's missing and provide a link as to where to find it.

But there is a way that works that's actually kinda easy.

Download the updates from Adobe, if you don't have them.

1) Open the .dmg file.2) Open the enclosed folder until you get the "AdobePatchInstaller" app (with the red adobe box logo), but DON'T click on the icon.3) Instead, right-click (or, Control-click) to the fly-out menu and select "Show Package Contents".4) Drill down to "...AdobePatchInstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobePatchInstaller".5) Go to Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and open the "Terminal" application.6) Drag and Drop the "AdobePatchInstaller" file from the MacOS Folder into the open Terminal window.7) Hit "Enter".

It should now load fine. Just do the Adobe install as normal from this point.

Anyway, that fixed it for me. I did it twice just to double-check.

There's still a minor annoyance I haven't found a fix for yet. It seems to corrupt some of smaller the UI elements of Photoshop (the little arrows in the Character panel's drop-down menus that let you change the font and size, as one example). The menus still pop up and work, they just have a scrambled meaningless graphic where the button was. In other places too–some filter control panels, I've found. These are the only two things Ive done since yesterday, so I'm sure there's more, but the actual tools still seem to work.

I have tried this solution so many times, so many ways (safe mode, root user) and it simply will not install on my new iMac. I am wondering if the combination of my iMac and Mojave is what is preventing the update.

I have been trying to get my version updated to 12.0.4 for a couple of days now and I keep getting failed installations (as the Adobe Install reports). I'm getting the "Error: unsupported compressor 8" problem that I've seen cited elsewhere.

I've tried solutions I've found elsewhere, too, but none have worked yet:

restarting a couple of times

rebooting into Safe Mode and then installing

creating a new user to run the install from

My next step is going to be to try my old iMac. I had just upgraded to a new, 2019 iMac when I discovered this issue (I guess I don't use Photoshop all that often!)

Has anyone found a reliable way around the "unsupported compressor" error?

After opening a file, PS crashes immediately after I click on the image with any of the tools in the tool bar. The drop down menus all work fine and do not have the same effect. Using Mac OS Mojave V 10.14.5

Hi David - I worked through the suggestion from Erik using the Terminal for an update install. That didn't work. I will now work on the fonts problem solving as you've suggested above. To be clear, it's not just the type/font stuff that's not working. As soon as I click on the document PS immediately crashes...

I suggested checking the fonts because a bad one can easily corrupt the system font cache and trigger all sorts of problems. But perhaps that's not the problem. It might be that CS5 just doesn't work on Mojave. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised. That's a difference of nearly a decade. In software, that's ancient -- hardware changes much more slowly than software, but a decade ago, you probably still used discs, while today, most MacBooks don't even have a drive for them...now apply that analogy to these programs...